Non-Chronological Report

Name: Kayla Soen

Class: P4-B
Title: The Beautiful Ladybug

Introduction:
What do ladybugs look like?
Most ladybugs have oval, dome-shaped bodies with six short legs. Depending on the
species, they can have spots, stripes, or no markings at all. Seven-spotted ladybugs
are red or orange with three spots on each side and one in the middle. They have a
black head with white patches on either side.

Where do they live?

Ladybugs are happy in many different habitats, including grasslands, forests,

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cities, suburbs, and along rivers.
When the weather turns cold, they look
What do ladybugs do?
for a warm, secluded place to hibernate, Ladybugs are most active
such as in rotting logs, under rocks, or from spring until fall.
even inside houses.  Ladybugs lay their eggs in clusters or
rows on the underside of a leaf, usually

What do they eat? where aphids have gathered. Larvae,

which vary in shape and color based on
One of the reasons why the farmers
species, emerge in a few days. 
love them because they eat aphids and
other plant-eating pests. One ladybug
can eat up to 5,000 insects in its

lifetime! Did you know?

They’re not bugs, they’re lady beetles.

The name ladybug was coined by

European farmers who prayed to the

Virgin Mary when pests began eating

their crops. Ladybugs wiped out the

invading insects, and the farmers named

them “Beetle of our Lady.”

Later it was shortened to “lady beetle”

and “ladybug”. In Europe, they’re called

ladybird beetles.

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Ladybugs are colorful for a reason.

Their markings tell predators: "Eat

something else! I taste terrible." When

threatened, the bugs will secrete an oily,

foul-tasting fluid from joints in their

legs. They may also play dead.